Sierra Leone News

Midland teenagers Zach Quesnelle, Colin Barber, Kelly Harris, Colton Johnstone and Clare Donaldson, Collingwood YMCA general manager Nilusha Premasinghe, camps and youth manager Brian Shelley and Collingwood youths Travis Ferguson, Gillian McFarlane and Laura Werbitsky are heading to Sierra Leone next month as part of a YMCA exchange program.

Olivia Thomas, 16, shown working at the Kalamazoo Deacons Conference, is one of nine local youths going to Sierra Leone to help paint and fix up a church in one of the poorest areas of Freetown.

They called themselves "Michael's Lucky Losers" of the memorial service lottery who came to the Jackson family home where on Tuesday morning they had the good fortune to mourn in virtual privacy.

The simple fact that, today, an African-American man is in the White House just shows what is possible and how quickly momentous change can happen if enough people want it.

Reporter Arwen Kidd is no ambulance chaser. The valley-reared filmmaker pursues human-interest stories - often ignored by major media - while working and teaching journalism in Africa's poorest, and often dangerous, nations.

Bresillac, who obediently accepted the task received from Propaganda Fide, promptly organised his mission and in January 1859, sent to Freetown, chosen as the centre of the fledgling Apostolic Vicariate, the first missionaries: Fr.

Many children were abducted from their villages and press-ganged into fighting during the war in Sierra Leone.

Edmond resident Deborah Lange is preparing to leave on her second trip to Sierra Leone.

Deputy minister of labor and industrial relations has voiced his ruling All People's Congress, APC-led government's determination to fight the increasing rate of poverty in the country.

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Baindu Sesay, 40, hails from Pepel village, Port Loko, north of Freetown, but she and her family were visiting relatives in the south-eastern city of Kenema during the 'Mami en Pikin Well Bodi' campaign that took place across the country earlier this month.

Catholics in Sierra Leone are commemorating Bishop Melchior de Marion de Bresillac, the country's Vicar Apostolic, who died 150 years ago.

A 28-year friendship between Warwick district and an African community has been strengthened during the past two weeks.

Live from Africa Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars 6/22/09 Scarred by the wounds of war, but not broken, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars are on a triumphant tour of America in support of a documentary film on the band, whose roots are set in the civil war of the west African country.

POWER hoses and AK-47 assault rifles have succeeded where Sierra Leone's snake-charmers failed by removing 400 cobras and vipers that overran a police station.

Recent rioting and violence in Freetown and the east of Sierra Leone has brought into focus the fragility of the post-conflict peace, held in place since 2002, writes Lisa Denney .

UNICEF Country Representative Tuesday disclosed that five million United States dollars have been donated by the Canadian government to the government and people of Sierra Leone to support programs aimed at improving access to healthcare services for impoverished and rural community women.

Unachievable recommendations to please victims or perpetrators of the Liberian civil conflict and sacrifice the Government on the altar of destructive criticisms must be avoided by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia, the former chair of the TRC of Sierra Leone has cautioned.

The Tornadoes' featured guest speaker for its commencement exercises June 9 arrived at the high school by stretch limousine and was surrounded by security guards, ambassadors, military officials, family and friends.

The national chairman of Sierra Leonea s leading opposition party has said he suspects the government of President Ernest Bai Koroma was behind his brief detention and interrogation at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. on June second.